Re: [Usability] main window position

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On 28 Dec, 2005, at 10:27 PM, tamer sezgin wrote:
> ...
> Each time I open an application, the main application window is 
> positioned at the left top corner of the desktop. Some applications 
> remember the window size but almost none of the can remember the 
> position.

You should report this as a bug for each program. It's a basic part of 
a spatial interface that all windows (other than alerts or dialogs) 
should remember where you left them.

> I believe the platform (either GTK or GNOME) should remember the last 
> position of the main window and (unless the application specifies a 
> specific positon) restores the last positon and size of the window...
> ...

The window manager could do most of this, except that it can't know 
which document is associated with which window. For example, if you 
close a document called "Annual Expenses", then rename it to "Expenses 
2005", then later reopen it, it should have the same window position as 
it did last time -- but the window manager won't know it's the same 
document. Conversely, if you have two documents called "Annual 
Expenses", one in a "2004" folder and one in a "2005" folder, and open 
them at separate times, the window manager can't know that they're 
different documents.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/